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cats, horror movies, and abstract algebra. Bronna has a B.A. in Art and an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Missouri. After being a financial executive for 22 years for creative entrepreneurial design, publishing, and telecommunications firms, she founded B.A. Baroque Arts, LLC in 1997. She has completed numerous commissioned pieces, including a twenty-foot-tall stainless-steel monument, 900 square feet of stained-glass windows, and over 140 oil and pastel paintings. In 2015 she began
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William Davis ’06 is co-founder of FabLab Tacoma, a makerspace dedicated to project-based learning, entrepreneurship and tinkering.
FabLab Tacoma FabLab Tacoma https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/05/william_davis_fab_lab-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 24, 2017 May 22, 2017 A guitar-playing robot plucks out the first few chords to the song “Here Comes the Sun.”A retired Tacoma resident crafts high-end chef’s knives and fishing poles. A group of college students
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John de Mars ’09 spends a lot of time outdoors, and his passion helped inform the recipe for the most recent product for his hot sauce company.
owner can’t be successful without a mentor. The key to carrying success long term is identifying goals and building internal systems to help a business become sustainable. The next step in that vision includes major sporting goods retailers and international sales. So far, he’s met with representatives from companies in Asia, Europe and Canada, thanks to a Seattle- based group that connects local businesses with international buyers. “A lot of people can’t tell you what their goals are,” de Mars
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…
. However, program co-coordinator Devynne Nelons, Healthy Parkland Initiatives Coordinator for CCES, said the group was still able to have nice discussions and doing so more intimately was not necessarily a bad thing. “This is an excellent opportunity for students to get to know the Parkland community better. Students got to do fun activities at local businesses and got some service learning experiences, too,” Nelons said. “It’s also a great way to give back and get to know the PLU area a little bit
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 12, 2016)- Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., says Pacific Lutheran University already exhibits academic excellence in a variety of ways: rich global education, robust student-faculty research, world-class faculty members and, of course, eager students who are ready to change the world. But Brown…
students of color. Now, Brown wants PLU’s leadership to make similar progress to improve a sense of belonging for all students in our ever-changing community. Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) She said the university must “dramatically increase” the diversity within the ranks of faculty and staff on campus, a group that is predominantly white. Currently, she stressed, there are no tenure or tenure-line faculty who identify as
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Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him.
requested some from his platoon. One of her favorites shows him smiling just after arriving in Afghanistan. He rarely smiled in photos, Mary recalled; he specialized in silly faces. “It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years,” she said. The Bradshaws are now considered Gold Star parents, part of a group of families who lost loved ones in war. It’s a membership nobody wants, yet it offers support for those who need it most. Mary has bonded with other mothers through the program. She also started
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South Sound STEM Fair Alliance In Partnership with PLU Invites you to participate in the Discovery Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
Discovery (formerly South Sound)Regional Science and Engineering Fair Will there be a 2025 Discovery Regional Fair? We need volunteers. Not enough Staff: Discovery Fair has no paid staff. We do not currently have enough volunteers to conduct a regional fair in 2025 A year ago our core group of volunteers numbered 10. Due primarily to retirements, our leadership team is now 3, with perhaps 3 additional volunteers. Our remaining leadership team members have limited time due to family, job and
Discovery Regional Science and Engineering FairMailing Address: South Sound STEM Fair Alliance PO Box 73232 Puyallup, WA 98373 -
. Along the way, we take some short detours, including a brief visit to Fibonacci’s sequence as well as an introduction to hyperbinary representations, but ultimately we will use our journey to develop three simple proofs to show that it is possible to count all the rational numbers. 9:30am – Counting Using Group Actions Taylor Gahr The topic of group actions, though it is often left out of an abstract algebra course, is one of the most interesting components of the field. In fact, many problems that
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TACOMA, WASH. (July 28, 2015)- It’s safe to say Forrest Griek ‘00, ’02 loves being at school. Currently the principal of Tacoma’s Browns Point Elementary, Griek has spent his career serving in a variety of positions at schools throughout the South Sound, including Todd Beamer…
on to earn a Master of Education (also from PLU), principal certification, superintendent certification and a Doctorate of Education. Earlier this summer, the tireless principal was named a national “Emerging Leader” in education by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). The two-year Emerging Leaders program “prepares a young, diverse group of educators to help shape education policy and advocate for the whole child (the long-term development and success of children
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Thomas Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen.
students at PLU have been long standing, but in the face of a presidential administration unfriendly to immigrants in the United States, an official task force for PLU’s undocumented students was created. Its mission is to best support the needs of undocumented/DACA students. The task force is made up of faculty and staff and includes student representatives from the undocumented student organization called The Gold Group. Since their formation in November 2016, the task force has been focusing on
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